Emerge libusb fails in this configuration with: ***** aclocal ***** am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. emerge info: Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.29 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt css cups curl dbus dlloader dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gdbm hal hbci howl input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ linguas_de lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mozcalendar mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd profile python qt3 quicktime readline real reflection samba session slang slp spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_none video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs x264 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS With 'emerge --oneshot =sys-devel/automake-1.8*' it works again
fixed in cvs
